http://www.metafilter.com/tags/grooks/rss tag posts with grooks Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:16:49 -0800 Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:16:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/21158/ <a href="http://www.powerweb.net/playandlive/piethein.htm">The man who wrote 10,000 Grooks</a> (<a href="http://hjem.get2net.dk/san/grooks.html">grooks</a>, <a href="http://www.cybercom.net/~klb/grooks.html">grooks</a>, <a href="http://www.dataphone.se/~bm/PietH.html">grooks</a>), Piet Hein, was also the inventor of <a href="http://www.mazeworks.com/hex7/about/invent.htm">Hex </a>and the creator of the <a href="http://users.ids.net/~salberg/soma/Soma.html">Soma Cube</a>. In the design world, he is most famous for the <a href="http://www.funxion.com/funxion/sup/sup1.html">SuperEllipse</a>, a figure that rivals Buckminster Fuller's geodesics in ingenuity, an aesthetic balance between a circle and a square, and a <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Superellipse.html">mathematical figure </a>which has been used to design a <a href="http://www.ddc.dk/UK/Danish_Design_Access/frembringelser/Sergels_torv.html">square in Stockholm. </a>From the SuperEllipse, you can get the SuperEgg, a strange solid which will unexpectedly balance on one end and has been <a href="http://www.randi.org/jr/051002.html">mistaken for an alien artifact</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.21158 Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:16:49 -0800 grooks piethein hein hex somacube superellipse superegg math mathematics design randi denmark deadlinks brokenlinks Winterfell